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Title	:	The Madonnas of Leningrad
Author	:	Debra Dean
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 228 pages
Published	:	February 20th 2007 by Harper Perennial (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Art. War. World War II

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean

Paperback | Pages: 228 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 16510 Users | 2140 Reviews

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Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of her youth in war-torn Leningrad.

In the fall of 1941, the German army approached the outskirts of Leningrad, signaling the beginning of what would become a long and torturous siege. During the ensuing months, the city's inhabitants would brave starvation and the bitter cold, all while fending off the constant German onslaught. Marina, then a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum, along with other staff members, was instructed to take down the museum's priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, yet leave the frames hanging empty on the walls—a symbol of the artworks' eventual return. To hold on to sanity when the Luftwaffe's bombs began to fall, she burned to memory, brushstroke by brushstroke, these exquisite artworks: the nude figures of women, the angels, the serene Madonnas that had so shortly before gazed down upon her. She used them to furnish a "memory palace," a personal Hermitage in her mind to which she retreated to escape terror, hunger, and encroaching death. A refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .

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Original Title:	The Madonnas of Leningrad
ISBN:	0060825316 (ISBN13: 9780060825317)
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i was so intrigued by the plot of this book. the setting is both in WWII Leningrad and modern day California. The main character, Marina is a young woman in love in Leningrad (her fiance joins the army) and then as an 80 year old struggling with Alzheimers. I did not get caught up in the depictions of living with the war, which i thought i would. Instead, i was rivetted by the way the author took you back and forth between 1940's and present day, much in the way that Marina's mind was

The Madonnas of LeningradI enjoyed this book so much, especially the vivid descriptions of the priceless works of art located in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at the time of World War II. The author brings these paintings to life; although you can imagine them perfectly well, I became interested enough to google each painting and study it as I read Debra Deans description. Through Deans main character, Marina, we learn so much about the siege of Leningrad by the German army

This work of historical fiction hangs in my memory like a painting. Leningrad (St. Petersburg)is under seige by the Nazis and while many fled, several caretakers of the Hermitage take up residence in the basement. Their lives as tour guides transformed the paintings into life companions. Removing them from the walls, they stored these grand works of art in the deep recesses of the Hermitage's underground crypts. The women who cared for these paintings walked the halls and continued the tours

I reviewed this book for Harper Collins Canada, here's what I said:The Madonnas of Leningrad is a lyrical and elegant novel about Marina, a young tour guide at the Hermitage Museum, during the siege of Leningrad in World War Two and her loosing battle with Alzheimers in present day Seattle. The novel shifts smoothly back and forth from Marinas battles in Leningrad with starvation and bitter cold and her present day battle with Alzheimers, comparing and contrasting the two. During the siege,

Based on historical fact, this is an original fiction story combining art history, Russian history, and alzheimer's. An elderly dementia grandmother is forgetting everything in the present, including her family, and getting lost in her memories of WWII. She was a docent in the Hermitage, one of Russia's premier museums. When they determined the best way to preserve their art was to hide it from the approaching Germans, Marina made a "memory palace" in her mind to visualize all the missing art on

Marina sometimes can't remember the names of people, or what she is doing, but she has no trouble remembering her days during the German bombing of Leningrad when she worked to protect the artistic treasures of the Hermitage. This is a different perspective of a period of WWII. Alternately, the story goes from current day where Marina's husband and family struggle with Marina's mental failure and eventually her disappearance and the day-to-day struggle for existence as the world around them is